A very productive year in the foundry. 20 maps have been produced played on and entered into this years awards. With the two held over from lasts years competition, we have 22 maps to judge this year.

Now it is time to pay tribute to the map makers for all their hard work and decide who is the best of the best.

Here are the categories in which you can vote. You can vote in all categories or none at all.

How you vote is so simple, a baby can do it. Click on any of the wood banners and you will be whisked away to a magical site to post your answers.

Best map made for 4 players or less.

Which has the best one versus one play?

Maps made for 8 players. More the merrier for these bad boys.

Something different for those of you that play doubles, triples or even quads.

The super model of maps.

Which map has the best gameplay.

The map a two year old can play on.

The most original idea in graphics or gameplay.

New maps made by new map makers. But who has made the best.

Which map makes the others shrink in fear.

For every map that wins in each of the categories, a shiny newGeneral Achievement medalwill be awarded to the map maker. But that is not all,six months premiumwill be given to the map maker that wins theBest of 2012category. 2ndand3rdplaces will also get additional3 months of premium.

Any map that comes out later will be moved over to next years awards (Baltic Crusades). Kingdom of Denmark and Istanbul are in from last year. The map makers are also entered into the best new map maker section. Voting lasts until the 14th January.

Here are the results for the first two. Third PlaceJoint third. 6.3% of the vote.Second Place7.6% of the vote.27.8% of the vote.Third Place9.2% of the vote.Second Place17.1% of the vote.25% of the vote.Third Place5.8%Trench WarfairSecond Place15.1%Kings Court 2Eurasia58.1%Third Place10%Trench WarfairSecond Place13.8%Kings Court 2Eurasia17.5%Third PlacePot Morsbi10.7%Second PlaceA tie at 13.1% Kings Court 2 & Dark Continent.Eurasia15.5%Third PlaceA tie at 7.7%. Pot morsbi and EurasiaSecond PlaceA tie at 10.3% of the vote. Dark Continent and Salams Switch.19.2%Kings Court 2Third Place8.4%New JerseySecond Place16.9%LondonEurasia Mini 41%Third PlaceCuban Missile Crisis and Trench Warfair get 12.2%Second PlacePatch Wars at 13.4%A joint first place this time at 15.9% of the vote each.Knights and Salem's SwitchAce Rimmer with Cuban Missile Crisis got

Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

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perchorin wrote:Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

Baltic Crusades was released too late for this year. I wanted each map to have some proper play time. Next year, I am thinking of doing it at the end of Jan so all maps get put into the correct year. As for the results, I will get screen grabs and post them with the results at the end. I will disable the links on the 15th so no more voting. Results will be posted here in the foundry and the dispatch on the 16th.

Ease of use (not overly complicated)3rd place mapRorke's Drift 2nd place mapQuad Cities 1st place mapSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

And the last one...Best new mapmakerThis was between...koontz1973 (Rorkes Drift)grifftron (Thailand)ironsij0287 (Quad Cities)lostatlimbo (Portland)Seamus76 (Tribal War - Florida)And the winner is...ironsij0287

perchorin wrote:Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

Baltic Crusades was released too late for this year. I wanted each map to have some proper play time. Next year, I am thinking of doing it at the end of Jan so all maps get put into the correct year. As for the results, I will get screen grabs and post them with the results at the end. I will disable the links on the 15th so no more voting. Results will be posted here in the foundry and the dispatch on the 16th.

perchorin wrote:Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

Baltic Crusades was released too late for this year. I wanted each map to have some proper play time. Next year, I am thinking of doing it at the end of Jan so all maps get put into the correct year. As for the results, I will get screen grabs and post them with the results at the end. I will disable the links on the 15th so no more voting. Results will be posted here in the foundry and the dispatch on the 16th.

Guys, I'm happy you love the map and I think that is enough for me. When thebastard has left the site 1 year ago, I tried to finish that map because I was sure about the potential behind it, so your words are really all I need.

Baltic Crusades was left out? The map can't win? Maybe next year it won't win anyway because it has passed too much time? Sorry but honestly I don't care, afterall it's not the end of the world. As said your kind words are enough, I appreciate them and I will continue to draw maps because people like you appreciate the effort. Yeah, win the awards would be nice, but it's not my personal target while drawing a map and moreover I don't want that map becomes a reason to block the current poll.

Now, let the awards can continue anyway, if you like that map so much, remember to vote it next year.

Thanks again to everyoneNobodies

I do NOT visit this site and I'm NOT Team CC anymore.All PMs are autobinned. If you need to contact me, you should already have a way to do it without using this site.Thanks to those who helped me through the years.

thenobodies80 wrote:Guys, I'm happy you love the map and I think that is enough for me. When thebastard has left the site 1 year ago, I tried to finish that map because I was sure about the potential behind it, so your words are really all I need.

Baltic Crusades was left out? The map can't win? Maybe next year it won't win anyway because it has passed too much time? Sorry but honestly I don't care, afterall it's not the end of the world. As said your kind words are enough, I appreciate them and I will continue to draw maps because people like you appreciate the effort. Yeah, win the awards would be nice, but it's not my personal target while drawing a map and moreover I don't want that map becomes a reason to block the current poll.

Now, let the awards can continue anyway, if you like that map so much, remember to vote it next year.

Thanks again to everyoneNobodies

Well said. Too bad next year you're going to be up against 2 of my maps, so good luck.

I think it's been mentioned before, but why does it still say "You are not authorised to read this forum." when I click on the 2012 link in the OP?

Here are the results for the first two. Third PlaceJoint third. 6.3% of the vote.Second Place7.6% of the vote.27.8% of the vote.Third Place9.2% of the vote.Second Place17.1% of the vote.25% of the vote.